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Founding of Morality and Marble Everything has a beginning, and with every beginning a narrative must always go along with it. Founding stories are tales of how things came to be, they can be extravagant, tragic and even mythical in nature. Two well-known stories which are often paired together due to their similar nature are the tales of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis and Livy’s Romulus and Remus. The resolutions in these stories had outcomes which established ideologies on sacrificial…

The Importance of Absurdity Our capacity to differentiate right from wrong in this world makes up a large part of who we are. Whenever we criticize the aspects of our lives, we assert ourselves, our ideas, and everything we have experienced and endured. Our ability to hold the world up to our standards lends us a feeling of power and control over our lives, giving us our pride and credibility as individuals, but when it is taken away from us, it renders us feeble, fearful, and helpless to…

I took the bus around the Los Angeles area on a Saturday. The bus I used was the 30/330 that goes from Sunset Boulevard into East Los Angeles. This was mostly what seemed to be residential areas and the main streets of Los Angeles. While riding the bus I saw the difference within the people through the surrounding buildings. The visible wealth disparity between the residents of Los Angeles is very stark and can be seen within neighborhoods. Starting at Sunset, near the Greystone Mansion, the…

Others argue fault for the defeat should also lay with Frederick Benteen, the other officer who headed the third company Custer, after Reno and Custer’s companies. Some say Benteen was also near the battlefield when the fight between Custer and the natives began. In the book, To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Larry Sklenar, it is said that when Benteen believed Custer to be heading “into battle without him, Benteen became frustrated and angry, and it would now take a very…

In the 1990s a game series started known as Silent Hill. This game series takes a main character into a town that’s warped by a nightmare landscape. The series itself has many common themes that fit in with Freud’s writing “The Uncanny”. Specifically, the second entry in the series aptly titled Silent Hill 2 is a prime example of the uncanny. Through the series’ regular themes, but also in terms of the double and Unheimlich James’ story unfolds and the player is left with a truly emotionally…

Diamond Hill is an asstonishing city population of one hundred fifteen thousand. Diamond Hill is located near the water so during the summer it is very warm and during the winter it doesn’t get to cold. The city consists of plenty of fun things to do to keep people occupied and happy. There will be a lot of hotels that are very nice and inexpensive. There will be plenty parks were dogs and humans and relax and have fun. The parks will consist of nature exhibits the contain butterfly houses, a…

victims. He shot Vincent then attacked, brutally and stabbed to death his wife also gouged out Maxine Zazzara eyes out as well. The police had no concrete evidence on Ramirez but on August 24th, 1985 Ramirez would kill his last victims. He says that he was mistakenly identified but he was charged with 14 murders and 31 felonies and after 23 years on death row Ramirez died June 7th, 2013 at the age of 53 from complications related to B-cell lymphoma. The Clown Killer, John Wayne Gacy born March…

Nothing more’s “Let ‘em Burn” is song about the truth of the matter that we need to start over because our world is clearly chaotic and mess up. The song has a deep and sensible summary, and some interesting connotations, and plus the tone has to be discussed as well. The summary is something really straight forward. The speaker is a person sick and tired of the people of this world. The speaker knows that the best thing to do about this is to wipe on the face of the earth or quote “Let ‘em…

Sallust discusses power in the preface of The Conspiracy of Catiline, he states that power can come from the mind or the body, but he makes the argument that the power of the mind is more resilient than the power of the body (Sal.Cat.pre.1.12-14). Bodily power is strength and might, while the power of the mind involves mental prowess and knowledge. He uses the example of war and says that in the beginning there was a focus on physical power rather than knowledge through strategizing, but after…

In January 2008, Kirsten Haglund was crowned Miss America. Through this competition, she was able to open up about her teen struggle with anorexia. From a young age, Haglund was struggling from insecure thoughts, but when she began going to a very competitive ballet school, those thoughts became real. In Louie’s running career and war experience, he also struggled with fitting in, survival, and persecution. Through both of their victories, Kristian Haglund and Louie Zamperini have been able to…